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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 74
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O God, remember thy chosen congregation—The wicked destroy the sanctuary and burn the synagogues—O God, remember them for their deeds, and save thy people.
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<span class='smallcaps'>O God</span>, why hast thou <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 19: 16 (15-16); D&C 35: 25; JS-M 1: 27 (27, 37).">cast</a> <i>us</i> off for ever?  <i>why</i> doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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Remember thy congregation, <i>which</i> thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 15: 16.">purchased</a> of old; the rod of thine inheritance, <i>which</i> thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
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Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; <i>even</i> all <i>that</i> the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ensign.">ensigns</a> <i>for</i> signs.
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<i>A man </i>was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled <i>by casting down</i> the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
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They said in their hearts, Let us <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 83: 4.">destroy</a> them together: they have burned up all the <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/74/8b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB assembly places.">synagogues</a> of God in the land.
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We see not our signs: <i>there is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Amos 8: 11 (11-12).">no</a> more any <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/74/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Sam. 3: 1; Lam. 2: 9.">prophet</a>: neither <i>is there</i> among us any that knoweth how long.
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O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?  shall the enemy <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 105: 15; D&C 112: 26 (24-26).">blaspheme</a> thy name for ever?
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Why <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 3.">withdrawest</a> thou thy hand, even thy right hand?  pluck <i>it</i> out of thy bosom.
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For God <i>is</i> my <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 44: 4; Alma 5: 50.">King</a> of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
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Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 27: 1; Isa. 51: 9.">dragons</a> in the waters.
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, <i>and</i> gavest him <i>to be</i> meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
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Thou didst <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 17: 6.">cleave</a> the fountain and the flood: thou <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/74/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Josh. 3: 17 (14-17); Ps. 66: 6.">driedst</a> up mighty rivers.
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The day <i>is</i> thine, the night also <i>is</i> thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
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Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Nature.">summer</a> and winter.
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Remember this, <i>that</i> the enemy hath reproached, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and <i>that</i> the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
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O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude <i>of the wicked:</i> forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
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Have respect unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/74/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 106: 45; D&C 1: 22; D&C 49: 9.">covenant</a>: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/74/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Cruelty.">cruelty</a>.
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O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
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Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.
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Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
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